ISU Gambling Megathread
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Better to address it now and suffer the ramifications of several athletes being kicked off the team than turn a blind eye to it...only for it for fester to a point where athletes are throwing games down the road for bigger payoffs.
And your shot was completely off the mark. Like worse than Lipsey taking a 3 pointer.
Post the evidence that this happened and name the players. Serious accusations you are making. Haven’t heard those rumors. Make the accusations back it up with facts.
They are releasing info about Iowa State football players yet no one has seen any info on non-players. It's not "commenting on an ongoing case" in a negative way to simply say "this is a statewide investigation and not targeted to any one team."
It would be like a Rep DCI only releasing info on well-known state democrats. I'm not making this political, but that's the best example of a targeted investigation. It sure looks targeted.
Edit. I know people at work who has signed their spouse's name on phone contracts, and I know of one that did on a mortgage document. It just seems interesting all this popped up out of nowhere. Breaking NCAA rules isn't against the law and I doubt the DCI is scanning people's phones (also illegal) randomly. What tipped them off to even start this? And then, what tipped them off to investigate phone records? NCAA infractions don't typically involve law enforcement.
Well, if your next door neighbor’s 19 year old kid is involved, do you think the news media would care? The media is only showing players because that’s actually newsworthy
I would imagine the investigation would uncover many other instances of illegal gambling, but people don’t care to hear if it involves someone nobody knows
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The charges were not published or released by the DCI. The charges were filed by county district attys based on the DCI investigation, and are a matter of public record once they are filed. Those affidavits contained many alleged discoveries and results of the investigation by the DCI. The media got their info from these filings.
Lee- sucks, but I trust the staff historically at that position in terms of development
Hanika- was not that impressed last year tbh, and we have a ton of up and coming talent getting rave reviews
Remsburg- was often injured anyway
Dekkers- not a great season last year, supposed leadership issues
Brock- this one hurts the most. We have a lot of depth there, but it's unproven, and he was set to be a star
That's my optimistic analysis of why this won't impact our win total all that much. Add in predicted benefits from new coaching staff and incoming recruits and I am predicting more than 4 wins, potentially up to 7 or 8 if things really click. I'd say 6 wins is what I predict.
This may be over optimistic, but I don't really see a point in being all doom and gloom in August. I'm pumped to see this team gut it out.
Hanika- was not that impressed last year tbh, and we have a ton of up and coming talent getting rave reviews
Remsburg- was often injured anyway
Dekkers- not a great season last year, supposed leadership issues
Brock- this one hurts the most. We have a lot of depth there, but it's unproven, and he was set to be a star
That's my optimistic analysis of why this won't impact our win total all that much. Add in predicted benefits from new coaching staff and incoming recruits and I am predicting more than 4 wins, potentially up to 7 or 8 if things really click. I'd say 6 wins is what I predict.
This may be over optimistic, but I don't really see a point in being all doom and gloom in August. I'm pumped to see this team gut it out.
Feels like some are acting like this is like losing Seneca or TD type of impact and I'm just not so sure.
Sure..when ISU gets their third win you can send $1k to Brent Blum as I assume you have never supported ISU FB. Brent has my info…does he have yours?
The Legislature specifically did not have to allow betting on college teams in Iowa. The sports books basically got everything they wanted including a lower tax rate than most states.
I thought quite a bit about this and for some reason I’m relatively calm about the impact on the season. Brock was probably the biggest loss. But we do have depth at running back. Everything else this season is going to depend on the offensive line. The defense is going to be stout, and I have all the confidence in the world in their ability to shut down pretty much anyone. So, in a nutshell if the offensive line has developed as much as we all hope, this is a team that will definitely surprise some people this year. On top of that we may have gotten rid of some bad influences from a leadership standpoint.
There might be some but to be fair I've never met a gal into sports betting. Casino games sure.
I have to think we'll at least be better in situations where a QB has to scramble or needs to just get an easy yard or two to keep a drive alive. Dekkers was the slowest QB we had since maybe Bandhauer. I have no idea what people were seeing preseason to tell us he was going to be a running threat.